A warrant authorized last month by the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor's Office charges Robert James Bell, 50, with one count of surveilling an unclothed person, a felony punishable by up to two years in prison, Prosecutor Jeff Fink said.

Fink said Portage police allege the incident occurred Aug. 7 inside a women's restroom at the Kohl's store on South Westnedge Avenue.

Meanwhile, the Decatur Daily, a newspaper in Decatur, Ala., reported Wednesday that police there are planning to charge Bell with three felonies and three misdemeanors, including third-degree burglary and criminal surveillance.

The new charges in Alabama come two years after Bell was charged in Decatur and in nearby Athens, Ala., with criminal surveillance for following women into restrooms at local businesses and looking in as they used the toilets, the newspaper reported.

"They are all going to be based on the same type of incident, where he would go into the ladies' restroom and peer over the top of the stall," Decatur Police Sgt. John Crouch told the newspaper of the new charges against Bell in Alabama.

Bell was charged in May in Kalamazoo County with three misdemeanor counts of disorderly person for following women into restrooms at KVCC in April.

Fink said Bell served 30 days in jail in May for the incidents and was ordered to serve one year of probation.

At the time of the incidents at KVCC, police also said they had determined that Bell had followed women into a locker room at the YMCA on Maple Street and restrooms at the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites in downtown Kalamazoo.

Fink said no charges were authorized against Bell in connection with the alleged incidents at the YMCA and at the Radisson.

Bell was being held in the Decatur City Jail Wednesday, according to the Decatur Daily. He was arrested last week on warrants charging him with failure to appear in court on a traffic citation and a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Crouch told the newspaper that at the time of his arrest last week, Bell was a suspect in the newly reported incidents "and our officers were looking for him."